141 pages, plus ads. 6.75 x 4.75 inches. Very good condition: clean and unmarked in sound binding with sunning to spine and light soiling to rear cover Export ad as seen. The first 3 pink leaves are creased. View More...
81 unnumbered pages, 22 of which are adverts. No folding leaves or maps. No place or date of issue specified. Cover detached, chipped and splitting along spine; else very good. H. J.Beemer was the contractor for the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway. 5.6 x 8.3 inches. View More...
xiv, 496 (of 498) pages. Lacking terminal leaf of ads. A well worn copy of the fifteenth edition [i.e. the fifth printing of the second edition]. A notable issue as it is the second printing with Ernest Thompson Seton's contributions removed, and the first printing with cover image reversed. See the very helpful outline of Troop 97: "Comparing a number of printings of these two editions shows the long-time BSA policy of making gradual revisions, corrections, additions, and deletions. The successive printings change only gradually; at no time can one say that a major change has occurred. Many c... View More...
Wooden boards, 20th century accordion style binding with ten hand-coloured paintings on silk mounted on paper. Top and bottom edge gilt. Text in Chinese and English on facing page. Pastedowns bubbled and lightly foxed; contents clean and binding sound. View More...
60 pages including cover. Profusely illustrated. Catalog No. 10; no stated date of issue. Originally mailed to Camp Neperhan [Neperan (?) later Glen Eagle], Newport VT. 9 x 4 inches. View More...
58 pages. Good only, with a long closed tear to first two leaves (no loss of paper), general soiling, and chipping at gutter of central leaves where a safety pin was placed to reinforce the binding - rather unsuccessfully as the central gathering remains loose. The catalogue is complete and profusely illustrated. View More...
Souvenir Program of Nova Scotia Fisheries Exhibition and Fishermen's Reunion. Lunenburg Nova Scotia September 15 - 19, 1953. Measures 8.75 x 6 inches. Unpaginated (124 pages]. Comprehensive Lunenburg / fisheries item chock full of adverts, photos, &c. Also included are three newspaper clippings regarding the election of the Queen of the Sea, a leaflet from St. John's Anglican Church, and a ticket for Wednesday the 16th. 157 item Prise [prize] List at front for entries in the following categories: fresh and iced fish, smoked, pickled, dry fish, ship's equipment, fishing equipment, marine engine... View More...
112 pages. Original leather spine; paper covered boards. Lacking front endpaper(s); 2 blanks present at rear. Frontispiece and four plates. Numerous head / tail vignettes. Covers rubbed; pages spotted; tears near gutter to lower margin of leaves up to page 32. Binding is sound. Some plates and vignettes with added colour. View More...
viii, 134 pages. "From the Author" on front free endpaper in Austen-Leigh's hand. Endpapers and half-title foxed; occasional light foxing within. Short closed tear to four adjacent leaves [pp. 57-64]. Corners bumped; head and foot of spine rubbed. 8 x 5 inches. View More...
32 pages, followed by facsimile of the 1486 original. Blindstamped vellumish substance over boards; gilt to spine; fore-edge and lower edge not trimmed. Light soiling to covers and what appears to be a binder's repair or augmentation to fore-edge of upper board. Bookplate of Antony Mac Dermott to front pastedown. Offsetting to endpapers. Binding is sound; no inscriptions; very presentable. Due to size and weight, overseas customers please inquire for accurate shipping quote. View More...
vi, 335 pages. Publisher's dark green cloth stamped in blind with gilt to spine. Unobtrusive ownership signature to front free endpaper; else clean and unmarked in sound binding. View More...
xxxvii, 136 pages. Complete with engraved frontispiece and half-title. Contemporary calf with edges worn and a bit chipped; rebacked in calf to match, retaining the original blank endpapers - 2 at front and 2 at rear. Ex Bibliotheca Piscatoria Ohlsoni plate to front pastedown. No inscriptions. Binding is sound. View More...
xii, 194 pages, plus two large folding diagrams laid in. Spine lightly sunned and abraded; faint staining to small section of rear cover. Interior is clean and unmarked; no spine crease. View More...
9, 514, [2]. Red cloth worn, stained, and faded. Title page has copyright M.A. Donahue & Co. 1912; published by Hamming; with Walter at foot of spine. Endpapers grubby; two old pencil ownership inscriptions [both in Nova Scotia] to front free endpaper. Loss of a third of page 265/6. A few leaves stained, and a few corners dog-eared. Binding remains sound. Profusely illustrated. 7.25 x 5.25 inches. View More...
xiv, 288. Original burgundy cloth with gilt fly to front. Top edge gilt (dulled). Bookplate of John Robson Young to front pastedown; more recent ownership signature unobtrusively to front endpaper near gutter at head. Two tiny worm holes at upper gutter near head. Fore-edge lightly speckled; contents generally clean; binding is sound. A pleasing example of this classic in first edition. View More...
252 pages. Light rubbing and shallow chipping to unclipped jacket, with foxing to spine panel verso. Book is clean and unmarked, in sound binding. 8 x 5.5 inches. View More...
viii, 255 pages, plus 20 page catalogue at rear. Old bookplate of Peter Carmichael to front pastedown, and unobtrusive more recent signature top left front endpaper (both seen in photo). Binding sound. Handwritten "Capt." in front of author's name on title page, else free of markings. A pleasing bright example. View More...
xvii, 405 pages, plus plates. All illustrations called for present, the full page plates each with tissue guard. Half leather over featherd boards. Top edge gilt. Three bookplates to front pastedown. J. Carrs & Co. Bookbinders Glasgow ticket top left verso of front endpaper. Binding is sound and contents clean. Very presentable. View More...